# 蹁

| 蹁 | U+8E41, &#36417; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E41 |
| ← 蹀 [U+8E40] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蹂 → [U+8E42] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蹁 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口一竹尸月 (RMHSB) or 口一戈尸月 (RMISB), four-corner 6712$_7$, composition ⿰𧾷扁)
* splayfoot
* knee

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1230, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37717
* Dae Jaweon: page 1702, character 18
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3726, character 6
* Unihan data for U+8E41

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 斒 | *preːn, *praːn |
| 鯿 | *praːn, *pen |
| 編 | *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ |
| 揙 | *pen |
| 褊 | *penʔ |
| 篇 | *pʰen |
| 偏 | *pʰen, *pʰens |
| 翩 | *pʰen |
| 媥 | *pʰen |
| 扁 | *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ |
| 萹 | *pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ |
| 騗 | *pʰens |
| 騙 | *pʰens |
| 諞 | *ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ |
| 楄 | *ben, *beːn |
| 蝙 | *peːn |
| 甂 | *peːn |
| 猵 | *peːn, *binʔ |
| 牑 | *peːn |
| 蹁 | *peːn, *beːn |
| 匾 | *peːnʔ |
| 碥 | *peːnʔ |
| 惼 | *peːnʔ |
| 糄 | *peːnʔ |
| 徧 | *peːns |
| 遍 | *peːns |
| 頨 | *peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan |
| 艑 | *beːnʔ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): pián (pian$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pin$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: pián
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: pián
*** Wade–Giles: pʻien$^2$
*** Yale: pyán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyan
*** Palladius: пянь (pjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pin$^4$
*** Yale: pìhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pin$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pin$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰiːn²¹/
* Middle Chinese: ben, pen
Rime :
| Character | 蹁 | 蹁 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | IV | IV |
| Fanqie | 部田切 | 布玄切 |
| Baxter | ben | pen |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ben/ | /pen/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ben/ | /pen/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /bɛn/ | /pɛn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bɛn/ | /pɛn/ |
| Li Rong | /ben/ | /pen/ |
| Wang Li | /bien/ | /pien/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱien/ | /pien/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | pián | biān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | pin$^4$ | bin$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*bˤe[r]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*peːn/, /*beːn/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蹁 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | pián |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ben › |
| Old Chinese | /*bˁe[r]/ |
| English | 蹁蹮 walk with difficulty (Shuōwén) |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蹁 | 蹁 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 731 | 742 |
| Phonetic component | 扁 | 扁 |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 邊 | 蹁 |
| Old Chinese | /*peːn/ | /*beːn/ |

### Definitions

蹁
* to walk with a limp

### Compounds

* 蹁躚 / 蹁跹 (piánxiān)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* to walk with a limp

#### Readings

* Go-on: べん (ben)
* Kan-on: へん (hen)
* Kun: よろめく (yoromeku, 蹁めく)

#### Compounds

* 蹁(へん)躚(せん) (hensen)

## Korean
### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 蹁 (MC ben|pen).

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [pʰjʌ̹n]
* Phonetic hangul: [편]

### Hanja

Wikisource 蹁 (eumhun 비틀거릴 편 (biteulgeoril pyeon))
* totter
* knee

### References

* Naver Hanja Dictionary: 蹁

## Vietnamese
### Han character

蹁: Hán Nôm readings: biên
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation